Avon and Somerset Police

Reports

What does the arrest of metro mayor and MP Dan Norris mean for his constituents?

The MP for North East Somerset and Hanham was arrested on suspicion of rape and child sex offences last week. He was immediately suspended from the Labour Party.

John Wimperis

Features

Kill the Bill prisoners are fighting repression from behind bars

Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson

No to Section 60

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Humiliation, trauma and mistrust: why we must scrap Section 60

John Pegram
John Pegram
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The Debrief

Listen: The Debrief – what a leaked police report revealed about racial inequalities in stop-and-search

A report leaked to the Cable showed the shocking fact that Black people are 25 times likelier to be strip-searched than white peers. Sean Morrison and Priyanka Raval ask what the findings say about police institutional racism.

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Sean Morrison, Priyanka Raval and George Colwey
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No to Section 60

Black children and adults strip searched 25 times more often than white peers in Avon and Somerset, leaked report reveals

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Podcasts

Listen: The Debrief – inside the campaign to end suspicionless stop and search

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Sean Morrison, Matty Edwards and George Colwey

No to Section 60

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Watch: How Section 60 contributes to rifts between police and the communities they serve

Youth workers, community leaders and the founder of a police monitoring group explain the damaging and traumatising impact of controversial 'suspicionless' search powers in Bristol.

Aphra Evans Alex Turner
Aphra Evans and Alex Turner

No to Section 60

Racist and traumatising: inside a Section 60 suspicionless stop and search operation

Officers searched innocent children, disproportionately targeted people of colour and undermined their anti-racism reforms during a 48-hour police operation in February. Their narrative that it was an effective knife-crime deterrent, done with consent, is misleading.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Podcasts

Listen: Cable Longreads – ‘Hollow victory’: a rape survivor’s journey through broken justice system

Cable reporter Priyanka Raval investigated whether the police's new approach to prosecuting sexual violence is really making a difference to survivors.

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Priyanka Raval and George Colwey

together for change

VIDEO: Chief constable challenged on ‘anti-racist policing’ progress and stop and search reform

It’s been a year since Avon and Somerset’s chief constable Sarah Crew admitted her service was institutionally racist, but what is she actually doing about it?

Sean Morrison Priyanka Raval
Sean Morrison, Paula Romero and Priyanka Raval

Cable Community News

#Cable10Years: three campaigns the Cable fought and won

For our 10th birthday we're collecting some of our best work. Here we highlight some campaigns the Cable has run to improve people's lives in the city, and how you can help us continue by supporting our work.

Eliz Mizon
Eliz Mizon

Reports

Labour’s Clare Moody wins Avon and Somerset police and crime commissioner election

Turnout was low as the former MEP, who campaigned on improving neighbourhood policing and reducing violent crime, narrowly defeated incumbent Conservative Mark Shelford

John Wimperis
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